If you are a Nerd like myself, and use Linux for your OS of choice, you may not have heard about KDE Connect and the Gnome equivalent gsconnect. These applications allow you to connect your phone to your Linux computer and send/receive SMS, receive notifications, use a file manager to browse your phone, send files, etc. There are a great many apps available in the iphone and android stores that do similar sorts of things. The nice thing about these are that they are obviously open source, designed NOT to spy on you, to be secure, and designed to integrate into the DE.
One installs the KDE or Gnome application on the PC, and the common KDE Connect app on the phone.

If you're looking for a way to integrate an Android device with your Gnome desktop without installing any KDE dependencies, look no more!
With GSConnect, you can easily send files between your Gnome desktop and Android smartphone, sync the...